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Planning To Spend 25 Percent Of
Defence Budget On. New Aircraft
OTTAWA. tCP)— The Defence Department plans to spend $3,130,- 000,0()0 in the next seven years for aircraft. This amount will represent roughly 25 per cent of the total de- fence budget for the years 1954 to 1961. officials said Wednesday. and will reflect Canadian concern with continental defence.
Equipping the RCA!‘ with the proper fighter aircraft in I slow and painstaking Job. And it never ends because in this supersonic age planes become obsolete al- most as soon as they are in serv- ice.
That is why the defence depart- ment must plan for aircraft seven or eight years ahead. The CF-105. successor to the CF‘-100 all-weather Iiintz-ratige _lf‘[ fighter, now is on the <lr.‘i\\.lll1 boards and the RCAF‘ is searchiiiiz for a surceasor to the Sabre jet for its air division in Europe. The prototype of the CF‘- lofi is not expected to fly until around 1960.
800 PLANES A YEAR
The air force lakes delivery of about 800 planes a year from Canadian manufacturers, includ- ing all t_\'p(‘.<. So far. A. V. Roe Ctiiiipany of Malian, Ont, has de- livered nwrc than 100 l\LiIl'l\' I11 and Mark IV CF‘—100s, enought to equip at least four squadrons.
The RCAF, with a current strength of 45.000, has trained 7.000 a:rcre-.v in the last four years lnr‘lLlflIIi5; iiiore tnnn 2.500 from other North Atlantic Treaty coun- l.l‘l€S
With aircraft consuming 25 per
cent of defence costs and person- nel for all forces taking up roughly half. only 25 per cent. is left for construction and other equipment. It the armed forces are maintained at their present strength, defence is going to continue to cost Can- ada about 32.000.000.00 a year for a long time to come.
As a comparison of air and
ground defence costs. the RCAF's' P9"l81l-im -
12 squadrons in Europe coat S600.- ooo.ooo a year.
PROTECTION ROLE
In event of air attack on this continent. the main job of the RCAF would be to protect the west‘: massive retaliation weapon- the United States strategic bomber force.
In the view of defence officials here. Canada has no primary tar- gets which would attract enemy bombers but if the U. S. bomber force were knocked out, the enemy
could then turn to secondary far-.
gets, such as big cities in both Canada and the U. S.
I-land-in-hand with plane produc-!
tion goes construction of radar networks. not only to detect and track hostile aircraft but to vector interceptors onto them.
Minister Ciaxton has said that the- and!
combination of interceptors radar now is so effective that at- tacking planes might be forced to take other than Arctic routes For this reason, radar picket ships and planes will patrol the seaward ap- proaches to the c-onttnent to supply naming of any sudden attack com- ing from the Atlantic or Pacific.
Suspended Term On Bigamy Charge
OTTAWA (CP-awinstun Fred- (‘l'l(‘l{ llvnsicr, 56-year-old Toronto man uhri SL‘l‘\'t‘(l a month in Jail
last gear for stealing the Currie rr-port on the Canadian Army, drew a Sll.~|\(‘nfl(‘d sentence Wed- nesday on a higaiiiy charge.
"You cnnie hcfnre this court Willi riuile fl reciirci." said county )ll4'lRt'! i\ (3. l\'lCl)(\iiEE~lll. “The
court Cttlllfl impose a maximum sonlnnce of H years. This should have some effect on and on what you do in future."
Hcn.<lor plcacleri guilty to the bi-
gniriy (‘l1?|l’R(' \\'cdnesday. Evi- rionrr-' ivns that he had been married three times.
He \\;i.r. con\'ictr~d last year of Sl(’."llii'l[! from the printer a report on cnnrlittotis at Camp Petawawa boimz prepared for the federal gov- ernmont.
Plant Still Strike Bound At Stellarton
S'f‘F.Ti!-AR'l'().\', N. S, iCP) — .\fanagr:' -’e:‘c:r‘ Prirtm‘ slid to- <la_\' ’.‘-l)Ulillt‘l \\0Od\\'0l‘l(il‘lg ‘has i)F‘f‘ll taken over com-
io molt" tr-irpiionerl Labor . ‘sun in Halifax that in the hands of the union anti .’.‘.i'~ ll»Ill'(‘i‘ no“ is "en- l.il‘(l)' in _\(l'iii' n:-nrls."
Spnknsnmii lot‘ the men on strike since ins‘. 0r‘t>l‘-oi‘ said, "We are in:iintn:r..n: n iv.~:i1 picket line and no damage has Ut"f'Il caused to the
the ;‘~l':r.t iia
plant." In l-i.i'. *llf‘.lii\\llll(‘, CCL di- rectoi Hr: x ii:-.;'.'n conferred “ill”.
Mi’. Patio on 0;. the SLY-L:£ilinl'l_ a tense oiic s.i‘.ce a scuffle Tuesday wrirn (‘(71, o _.l!‘i2(‘t‘ Don Nichol- : l1t'ttl.
Mr. P ....i:i has aIreiid_\‘ said he \\;ii .‘~"ll’l iasor troiihie-shooter J. P. Brit in tire S(‘Cl‘.€ to investi-
gate the rii:-nii.e
About inn fl‘-‘l:(‘l.< remained at the plant trim-..
SlF‘ll-’ll'it'ill iiiwii pni:ce were slanti- itii: in ri‘-irl llii‘l’(‘ u'.i.< no \‘lDlFll(‘e.
Th-i r) l‘-ii:<=:' and Solis plant
has lJf‘I‘ll iiilc since the company and unmn ia.Lrd to agree on A new (‘rin‘r.it'l. The union asked A 90-f'(‘lil l'lr1li2'i\' uaur‘ boost. reduc- tion of tho \\(\l'i( \\‘f‘f‘l(_ from 4-6 to 44 l"tll:.- in-' hul:ria_i benefits A
ronrtlintlon iimrri report iiiilzgesting one nooitk iiicahzoti and the worit neck i'(‘(llli‘llO'l but no change in pav tvas accepted by the union and rrirclt-ti hv tlir /()f‘il}lt\ll}'
The lliillill is local 276 of the
New Canadian is F 91 Years Old
KENTVILLE, N. S. (Cl'-’\—--Mrs. Emma Vetra smiled Wednesday as her daughter Maiga took the oath of allegiance. Then she her- self wrote out the oath in a shaky hand and repeated it in shalcier English.
That's how Mrs. Vcira. 91 years nlrl, became a new Canadian,
A native uf Latvia, she and her daughter fled when the Russians took over after the Second World War. They came to Canada in 1948. Miss Vetra is an architect with a firm at nearby Wolfviiie.
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Defence‘
NEW YORK iCPi—’l‘he Herald Tribune says in an editorial today that speeches Tuesday by two Canadian statesmen “bear new witness to the warm mutual rela- tions between Canada and the Un- ited States."
“At Geneva, Mr. Lester Pearson rose to defend the United States against Communlsrcharges of im- . That such assur- ance should need to be given about ::;ml:Tlll_lelPdfStl}l‘Ile3 is one of the
5 9 8 Present age; that file ‘Canadian secretary of state on‘ hyrgeslxlrfl affairs should take it ____V _e_‘ give them is oneg
CITES WARM Munui iitunotls BETWEEN CANADA AND THE u. s.
of its compenlallonl." Governor-General Manse)-‘s ‘ad- dress the same day before the joint session of the 1.1.8. Congress emphasized “the mutual respect that exists between men and na- firms that lead their own lives and are faithful to their own ways." “At a time like the present. when the Communist bloc is mak- in; every effort to divide the West- ern alliance. these brave and forthright words from Canada are of inestimable value." DEBT -ro CANADA GREAT The New York Times calls the overnor - |eneral'a address "a
mu no Gumlfaa . May 1. 1051 and eloquent Ipeeeli.’ an
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“With typical modesty the gov- ' emor-general concentrated his re- marks on Canada‘: debt to the United States in acientiffe, cultural and other fields.
as great. a debt arising from such varied benetits—to name but two —aa the security of having a great and [cod friend along a continent- wide northern border and the strength accruing to ua from Can- ada‘: treat contribution to the Free World‘: atomic power and knowledg¢ . . ."
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address is more important "than any words he spoke could be."
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